Verses I LikeBowes, Major Edward (Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt)NY Garden City 1937 16th Printing Hardcover Good+ in Fair dust jacket Major Bowes' own selection from the heart-warming poems that he has read over the air to his millions of radio friends--verses of enduring beauty that have done much to make his broadcasts for years the most famous in the world. DJ edgeworn, sunned, chipped. Previous owner's bookplate, top edge dusty, deckled edges ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 191 pages; 20991
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10.00 USD

Victorian PoetryBrown, E. K. (Editor)The Ronald Press Company 1942 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket Companion volume to "Victorian Prose" edited by Frederick William Roe. Represents the principal poets of the Victorian age with most space given to Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Includes a number of long works, for example "Atalanta in Calydon", "The House of Life" and "Modern Love", seldom if ever given in full in an anthology. Edgewear, dampstain. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 912 pages; 31306
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8.00 USD

Transient SpringGalloway, Louannie StrattonBoston Chapman & Grimes c1936 Hardcover Good in Fair dust jacket Dampstain lower half of DJ, affecting only the first and last couple of pages of textblock. Book plate. Back of DJ is ad for a book of western verse titled Sun & Saddle Leather by Badger Clark; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 64 pages; 20984
Price:
12.00 USD

Grains Of SandGibbs, Marian Garrett, and Joydelle Garrett WolframN.D. Softcover Very Good "Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand Make the Mighty Ocean and the Pleasant Land" -- Ebenezer C. Brewer inspired this book of poetry written by two sisters. This is the original manuscript, from one sister to another prior to publication of the book. Don't know which sister typed up these poems, but her poems are inspired by already published authors and those quotes are typed above the authors' poems. Original manuscript of 37 poems written by two sisters with a note from one to the other on title page. Later published under Ms. Gibbs' name alone. Hardcover also available. ; Manuscripts; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 18287
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12.35 USD

The Poems Of LongfellowLongfellow, Henry WadsworthLondon George G. Harrap & Company 1930 Flexible covers Very Good with no dust jacket Illustrated frontispiece. Green leatherette covers with gilt lettering, embossed spine. All edges gilt, marble endpapers faded. This edition is based on the Riverside edition. It contains the entire text as published in the six volumes and such condensed bibliographical and other notes as seem desirable for the general reader and compatible with the limitations of a one-volume edition. The poems are given as nearly as may be in their chronological order, but a table at the end of the volume indicates this order more precisely. Extremities rubbed, spine darkened but gilt is still brilliant, all edges gilt. Interior near fine. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 689 pages; 12054
Price:
40.00 USD